The big "Twerk Talk"...
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:00 pm
Believe it or not, it shows what a literate crowd we are when a very high-brow subject like twerking gets discussed over coffee as it did on last Sunday's ride. Of course when we, mostly 'les hommes d'un certaine age' get around to discuss things which our kids talk about in furtive language, it's all about the discomfort felt by our children who are confronted with trying to explain something so simple to their loser parents. I'm told, "twerk" is now officially in the Oxford English Dictionary, so we can proceed discussing and dissecting the subject with a high degree of learnedness. Dylan is trying to figure out how to say "twerk" in Spanish so his kids will be assured how hip he is. And thankfully the New York Times lays out what the poor embarrassed kids can't:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/opini ... d=tw-share
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/opini ... d=tw-share